“All members of the Court have been completely vaccinated. I think all of us have completed the second jab,” Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo said Friday in his first press conference since assuming the top judicial post in April.
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CEBU Bzzzzz: Cebu’s Geraldine Econg applies for SC seat. Lito Osmeña wants his son for city north district, del Mar’s daughter for mayor. Mimo undecided, Cutie firm on House bid.
CEBU. (From left) Former Cebu Regional Trial Court Judge Geraldine Faith Econg, Mariano Mimo Osmeña, former Cebu governor Emilio “Lito” Osmeña, and former Cebu representative Rachel Cutie Del Mar. (SunStar File)
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Wrote ruling that freed Bong
SANDIGANBAYAN Associate Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg described in a Manila news site as “Cebu-based,” having served in the Cebu Regional Trial Court and Cebu City municipal trial courts – was interviewed via Zoom by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) Wednesday morning, June 2. She and 14 other applicants are vying for the seat vacated by Alexander Gesmundo who was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court last April.
“It is within the powers of the government to say these are the only vaccines available. If you line up then you have to be vaccinated with this brand. If you don’t want to, then it’s your choice,” Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Rafael Lagos said.
Gesmundo OKs fully remote videoconferencing hearings
Published May 31, 2021 5:20pm
Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo Judges may now conduct entirely remote hearings amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a circular issued on Monday, Court Administrator Midas Marquez said Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo has allowed judges in first and second level courts to conduct fully remote videoconferencing hearings until further notice “so as not to delay the trial of cases and court processes.” The first level courts are the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts while the second level courts are the Regional Trial Courts.
Centro Escolar University School of Law and Jurisprudence’s faculty member Hon. Alexander Gesmundo has been appointed as the 27th Chief Justice of the Philippines by President Rodrigo Duterte and took his oath before SC Senior Associate Justice Estela M. Perlas Bernabe on April 5, 2021.
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